10 Directors Who Admitted Their Movie SUCKED

Basically nobody was surprised that Dark Phoenix, the final major film in Fox's X-Men Universe, was a big ol' dud, cratering both critically and at the box office.

Much was written pre-release about the film's production issues - such as large chunks of the third act being re-shot to avoid copying Captain Marvel - and the dubiousness of regular X-Men writer and first-time director Simon Kinberg taking over the production from Bryan Singer.

Just a week after the film's release, Kinberg was disarmingly open about the film failing to make an impact and his role in it. In an interview on KCRW's The Business podcast, he said:

"It clearly is a movie that didn't connect with the audiences that didn't see it, it clearly didn't connect enough with audiences that did see it, so that's on me... It wasn't made as a classic superhero movie, it was made as more of a dramatic, intimate, smaller film.

Though Kinberg went on to say that releasing shortly after Avengers: Endgame likely did Dark Phoenix no favours, he admirably emphasised that he was at fault for the film's problems:

"I'm here and I'm saying when a movie doesn’t work, put it on me. I'm the writer/director of the movie, the movie didn't connect with audiences, that's on me."